TILE: The Tactus Immersive Learning Environment

In Phase I, the project team is developing a prototype of the Tactus Immersive Learning Environment (TILE), a virtual reality simulation platform designed to facilitate student learning of core National Science Education Standards. TILE is intended for use as a supplement to middle and high school science curricula, for primary instruction of concepts, for review of concepts, or for individual or small-group practice. Because TILE will provide real time graphical representations and summaries of students' manipulations and the resulting changes due to their manipulations, the virtual reality environment will "bring to life" students' learning of key science concepts.